US1302913A - Apparatus for treating fluids. - Google Patents

Description

G. F. GOERNER.

APPARATUS Fon HEMfNG nulos.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 22| 19! Patented May 6, 1919.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

v APPARATUS Foie TEEATING FLuIns.

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' Appncaupneied september 22, 1917.` serial No. 192,815).

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` Be it known that LVGEORGE F. GonnNEn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, county of Los Angeles, and

State of California, have invented a certain` new and useful Apparatus for Treating Fluids, of which the following is a specification.

'This invention relates to apparatus for f treating fluids, with the especial end in view of separating therefrom the solid matter carried therein in suspension, precipitating separated substances contained therein, and condensing the gases or vaporous bodies in the fluids under treatment.

In general, my means for effecting the objects above stated, consists in causing the Huid to be treated to pass through a fluid screen, and specifically it consists in interposing in the path of travel of the fluid a treating fluid iiowing in a direction at an angle to the flow of the fluid to be treated, whereby to deflect the fluid matter and cause a condensation of the condensable matters, and a separation and precipitation of the solid matters in a zone outside of that trav` ersed by the fluid under treatment, and collecting the resultant products, whether solids or liquids.

I use the term fluids throughout the specification and claims in a generic sense as designating any aggregation of mole` cules, be it smoke, fumes, vapors, dust, steam, mineralogical gases or products, air or the like.

The invention and further objects thereof will appear more fully from the subjoined specification in connection with the accompanying drawing, illustrating one form of apparatus for carrylng out my discovery, and the illustration in the drawing may represent a complete apparatus or but a single unit of several conjoined to effect the execution of the steps hereinafter described.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a unit.

Fig. 2 is a section on lne- 2--2, Fig. 1, and

Fig. 3 is a section on line 33, Fig. 1.

The apparatus, as shown, consists of two chambers A and B, interconnected by a pas sageway C and supported on a base of concrete or other suitable material.

Each chamber is composed of two conjoined sections 1 and 2, and 3 and 4 respectively, the upperV sections 1 and 3, respectively of each chamber provided with open ings 5 and 6 respectively, which register with the openings inthe passageway C, `and the opening 5 in the sectionl-of chamber' A formed with a` dependin baflie flange 7. Infeach upper section"1` and Sfof the chambersA and 13,;. arehand holes 8 and 8, and 9 and 9, respectively, normally closedl bycovers 10"and 10', and 11 and f11,1re

\ spectively, `these holes serving to' permit in-` spection of the interior of thecliambers.

The lower` :sections 2 and A., respectively,`

of :the chambers and 1B, are provided with openings 12 and 13, respectively', formed with channel walls 14: andl, respectively and with inclined bottoms 16 and 17,respectively, provided with drain pipes 18 and 19,

respectively, disposed in said base 1, and arranged to convey the fluids, precipitates and extracted products to discharges 20 and 21, respectively. The openings 12 and 13 of the lower sections 2 and 1 are in line with the openings 5 and 6 of the upper sections 1 and 3, and with passa es 22 and 23, respectively provided in said ase 1 to conn vey the fluids, such as fumes, vapors, gases and the like, to be treated, upwardly through the chamber A and downwardly through the chamber B, as hereinafter pointed out. l

In the fluids conveying passageway 22 is disposed a nozzle 24 through which a fluid of any desirable nature is discharged in an upwardly direction, but at an angle to the flow of the fluid to be treated. Such fluid may be any capable of elfecting extraction, separation or condensation, and may be a liquid, as water.

In the fluid conveying passageway C is disposed a nozzle 25, through which a Huid of any desirablev nature, either like the fluid used in chamber A or different therefrom, is discharged in a downwardly direction, but at an angle to the flow of the fluid to be treated. i

Valves 26 and 27 respectively control the supply of the fluid to and through the nozzles 24 and 25.

The substance to be treated enters into the passageway 22 and travels upwardly, meeting in its ascent the fluid discharged from the nozzle 24, which deflects the course of travel of the substance and carries it with it to the sides of the chamber A. The precipitates and condensates collect in this chamber A and are eventually carried out through the drain pipe 18 and discharge 20, while the fluid under treatment, with what- Y from the condensates andc precipitates are charge 21.'.

What I claim Yis drawn effthleegh drain Pipe 19, end die.-

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gaseous bodies to remoye therefrom "the Solide.; eeneeteg ete 'pliirelty ef ehembee,

having collection zones'forsolids, means intereeneetng. Seid: ellemleele' enel leuning.. e zone of travelll for the gases, means vfor eereenng the lelet te eHdthe outlet frem Seid' Zelle eftieyel by reepeetvely en; 11P- Werdly end outwardly and e, downwardly and eityyerdly dfeeted liquid` Spray die; charging into said collection zones, said last dopjes of this Ypartentmay be obtained for named spray inducing the puriied gases through said zone of travel.

2.- An apparatus forY treating fluids consisting of chambers, means intercoimecting saidchanibers "and forming a zone or travel for the gases, said chambers formed with collection z ones for solids, means for supply- :w

ing an upwardly directed spray discharging entirely across the zone of collection and the zone of travel at the entrance to said zone of travel whereby solids are extracted and deposited Iin said collection zones, and means fer supplying al downwardly directed liquid spray across the outlet from the zone of travel and the zone of collection at said outlet Itoiextract the remaining solids and maiutain a lvacuum within said zone of travel.

lIn testimony whereof I aiiix my signature in the presence of a witness.

GEORGE F. GOERNER.

Witness W. H; DUTToN.

yecents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

washington, 1). c.-

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